What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Oracle Internet Directory?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Oracle Internet Directory connector in release 9.0.4 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

See Also:

The 9.0.3.1 release of this guide for information about updates that were new for the 9.0.3.1 release

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

• Software Updates

  These include updates made to the connector software.

• Documentation-Specific Updates

  These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

See Also:

Oracle Identity Manager Release Notes

Software Updates

This section discusses updates made to this release of the connector software.

Enabling Provisioning of Users in Organizations and Organizational Units

Functionality for enabling provisioning of users in organizations and organizational units is discussed in the following sections:

• Enabling Provisioning of Users in Organizations and Organizational Units

Provisioning and Reconciliation of Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

Functionality for provisioning of organizational units, groups, and roles has been added. Changes corresponding to this functionality have been discussed in the following sections:

• Provisioning Organizational Units, Groups, and Roles

• Lookup Fields Reconciliation Scheduled Task

Multiple Trusted Reconciliation

In this release, functionality for Oracle Identity Manager to work with multiple connectors in trusted reconciliation mode has been added. This functionality is discussed in the "Partial Reconciliation" section.

Partial Reconciliation

The CustomizedReconQuery parameter has been added to the IT resource definition. You can use this parameter to customize the query that the reconciliation module uses to determine the records to be retrieved from the target system. The CustomizedReconQuery parameter is explained in the following sections:

• Defining IT Resources

• Partial Reconciliation

• Testing Partial Reconciliation

Support for New Functions

In the "Supported Functionality" section, the following functions have been added:

Create OU (provisioning)

Change OU Name (provisioning)

Delete OU (provisioning)

Move OU (provisioning)

Create OID Group (provisioning)

Delete OID Group (provisioning)

New Group Name Updated (provisioning)

Create OID Role (provisioning)

Delete OID Role (provisioning)

New Role Name Updated (provisioning)

Create User (reconciliation)

Delete User (reconciliation)

Enable User (reconciliation)

Disable User (reconciliation)

Move User (reconciliation)

Add User to Group (reconciliation)

Remove User from Group (reconciliation)

Assign Role to User (reconciliation)

Remove Assigned Role from User (reconciliation)

Changes in the Supported Target Systems List

In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, the information on supported target system host platform has been modified. This release of the connector is not dependent on any target system host platform.

Enabling Logging

By following the instructions in the "Enabling Logging" section, you can configure the generation of log information that is specific to the target system.

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in this release of the guide:

• Instructions in the "Determining the Release Number of the Connector" section have been revised.